Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
About the Role (Your Why)
The Senior Project Manager is tasked with providing project management services across a portfolio of large projects, from initiation through to closure, including definition, approach, planning, organising and technically leading and controlling the completion of allocated projects. The Senior Project Manager ensures all contracted projects are delivered to the highest quality standard, within scope, in budget and on time.
Please note, due to the nature of our client account, if you are working in Australia you must be an Australian Citizen and be able to achieve Australian Baseline clearance to be successful in your application for this role.
Please note, due to the nature of our client account, if you are working in New Zealand you must be a New Zealand Citizen or holding legal work rights (visa) for New Zealand and be able to clear an MOJ/Police Clearance to be successful in your application for this role.
What You’ll Do:
- Ensuring preparation/completion of large projects to appropriate quality standards within time/cost constraints as well as meeting contractual requirements and company budget requirements.
- Manage project teams operating on complex/large projects, typically in a complex, multi-platform technical environment.
- Coordinating documentation, design, development and testing of enhancements and new development projects.
- Tailoring project methodology to individual projects when needed.
- Preparing project budgets, attaining necessary approvals in a timely manner and monitoring project financials and the realisation of defined project benefits.
- Exceeding stakeholder expectations through the application of stakeholder management disciplines.
What You’ll Bring:
We are seeking a resilient and adaptable team player to manage multiple mid to large-sized projects, who can bring a dynamic element to our existing professional project management capability.
You will have:
- Extensive experience working on large complex projects, preferably with a focus on ERP, CRM or EDW projects.
- Ability to build and lead collaborative project teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
- Broad and deep understanding of technical software development and implementation projects and related technology dependencies.
- Strong communication skills with proven experience of managing various stakeholders of all levels and the ability to tailor your conversations accordingly.
- Strong financial management practices with a clear understanding of the relationship between costs, utilisation and project revenue.
- Experience working with Agile, Staged and Waterfall methodologies is essential.
Why Join Us Here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.
Top Skills
What We Do
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems.
We bring together over half a century of know-how, the right technology and the knowledge and creativity of our people, to deliver sustainable solutions to our customers’ greatest challenges.
With our team of dedicated professionals, we work with leading partners to deliver the solutions that are right for our customers – that solve their issues and enhances their businesses.
We design, build and run IT systems and processes across operations, cybersecurity, cloud, digital platforms, payroll and enterprise applications. We deliver customer care services and operate mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class data centre facilities – Datacom delivers on the promise: practical imagination.
